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The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Boys Should Learn Trades.

Too much Of the fault is in the folly of pa
rents who, i'll the idiotic expectation that lucky
chance will open way to rnsy acquisition of
wealth in mercantile or professional life, per-
init their boys to grow up in idlencss, instead
OF sending them into mechanics workshops
to learn trades. This stupid folly has become
almost universal A blacksmith or carpenter
may have difficulty in finding an intelligent
boy to work in his shop, but let merchant
or professional man advertise for IN Office
boy, messenger, Or packer, at Sc or So q
week, and he will have applicants by tho
score, i'll spite of the certainty that only
something like u miracle can ever advance
the successful one to grade of service in
which he will earn as much as fair me-
chanic. Infinitely better than this would be
the ancient custom of some European coun-
tries, where it was required that every boy
should learn some trade, whatever the wealth
or position of his family might he.
No social, moral, or industrial reform is
more necessary for the public welfare than
the restoration of boys to their proper place
in the mechanic arts and tho consequent dis
bandment Of the armies of adocscent black
guards whose detachments are being trained
in the worst associations of city life to become
utterly worthless and intolerable nuisanoas.
Chicago Times.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Degeneration of the raris,ons.

There seems to be change coming over
the Parislans; for want Of leaders of fashion.
for want of example and emulation, they APP
pear to bc losing that grace which has hitherto
amply compensated for their low average of
facial beauty. Even in the streets you notice
that the work girls are not tricked out SO
nnttily as they used to be ten years ago; their
bearing is less piquant, their general aspect
less satisfactory to the critical eye. 1t would
be absurd to conclude from these trifling OBJ
selvations that Paris is going to the dogs,
and yet there is evident n growing spirit of
neglect. In dress, in Manner in language,
i'll the streets, in the restaurants, in the cafes,
in all the major and minor manifestations of
public life, one might point out thousand
facts which bear witness to diminution of
that spirit of self respect and self criticism
which used to characterize the Parisians and
the city of the Parisians Paris Cor. London
World
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Casts of Distinguished Men.

There are three plaster casts of distinguished
men hanging in John Rogers studio that at
tract attcntion-Wiliam Lloyd Garrison, the
great anti-slavcry agitator, Henry Ward
Beeclcr and Robert Colycr. Tho cast of Mr..
Beecher's face was taken nearly eighteen years
ago, when Mr.. Rogers was sfashioning group
ofnnti-slavery ngitators. Mr.. Beecher had been
sitting for him ut intervals for two or three
weeks. One day Mr.. Rogers suggested that
he might have saved all liesittings by taking
n plaster cast of his face, when the great
preacher replied "lf it will be of any ser
vice you can take the cast now" Mr.. Rogers
set to work Mt once and soon finished the cast.
asked him if Mr. Beccher was much an
noycd by the operation "No," said Mr.
Rogers "He told me afterward that he
nearly went to sleep" A popularity Of the
cast is its marked resemblance to that of
Robert Collyer which hangs beside it. Tho
faces are of the same type, and friends of Mr..
Beecher i'll looking at the two have taken
them both for casts of Mr. Beccher.-New
York Tribune
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
A Star Route Mail.

In one Of tho gulches stood the ruins Of
cabin and n 'star route" refuge No possible
need had existed for mail carriage across
here, but Il few years before my date con-
tractors had found it profitable to institute
the route; and sack holding half dozen
letters and perhaps n few copies of The Con-
gressional Globe was carried back and forth
on horseback One man brought it $50 miles
or SO from Missoula and delivered it here in
the wild woods to Il second man, who carried
it down to Lake Pend d'Orielle, rowed forty
miles across the fir circled water and handed
it over to q rider at the western end. This
middle man was utterly alese. Not single
soul lived Oh his route. In tho winter he
Travelled OH snow shoes, for months together
saw nobody but the carrier who brought him
his pouch at each end, and could tell YOU
stories of adventures with wolves and bears.
and of wonderful visions of elk, sheep and
mountain goats Robinson Crusoe led a less
secluded life.-Ernest Ingersoll in The Ameri-
can Magazine
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Woman and nIetlicine.

We are only surprised that moro women
are not poisoned If one sees anything with
a label on itand the name of drug store.
she'll investigate it at whatever cost. If it is
a powder she'll wet her finger, put little OH
her tongue and make fuce whether it's nasty
or good; then she'll give little shulder und
wrap it up again. But the funniest thing of
all is that when woman is sick it will not do
to leave anything like bottle of medicine in
sight, for she'll try it, whatever it may be in
tended for
A lady of high position, who has money
enough to Start several drug stores, got up
the other morning with raging tootIache.
She saw bottle in her daughters room. 1t
simply stated that it WAS to be used in case of
pain. She Immediately opened the bottle,
soaked piece of cotton wool with tho stuff
and very literally anointed her aching tooth,
IN a brief space of time developments dis
closed the medicine to be n plain, ordinary.
every day emetic.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Indians and Philatlclphians,

The downtrodden Indians on the Sioux
reservation now make Il charge that some
man has sold them liquor just before court
meets SO as to be taken to Yankton rs wit
nesses. The Indian may be called lazy, but
while he is sitting around and apparently
doing nothing for three or four years, he is
thinking of some scheme like this that would
be very trying to the Philadelphia Indian
Rights association if it had charge of him.
1t is surprising how a Philadelphia society
can take right hold of n question lying away
out beyond the Missouri river and cut it up
into small pieces and dispose of it.-Dakota
Bell.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
American Medical Students Abroad.

There arc comparately few American
students of medicine now i'll Paris. Those
who come are usually physicians bearing the
diploma of some American medical college,
who attend tie lectures and visit the hos
pitfalls for possibly season. and then go to
Vienna or Berlin, or to both cities, taking
them i'll succession. AS students and grad
uated physicians there are in all several
thousand Americans every year at the famous
institutes of Germany and Austria. do not
know why it is that the tide OF doctors is set
ting away from this city, while the number
Of students in art and i'll medicine augments
rapidly each year. The opportunities for
studying medicine are certainly ample Lee
lures are free and the hospitals are open to
the students of every nation.-Paris Cor. San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
They Will Not bc Enf,rcod

a man named Charles III. Constance went
out from New York to Butte City recently
ana started hotel. He tackled up II long list
OF "Rulcs of This House," which limited Mt
the bottom that the above would be rigidly
enforced and he was only just putting the
hammer away when n prominent citizen
came Ill and showed his hat on the back of his
head and began reading them. He studied
them attentivoly for about q minute and
turned around and said
"Rulcs of this house. hey, strangera"
Yes, sir; yes, sir; rules of this house. Can
do anything for you to.dayl"
''Bove will be rigidly enforced heys Hev
got it all right"
"Er-ycs, sir, suppose they'll he enforced
in measure at least, sir"
"Will hey, will theys When We gon' ter
begin enforcin' of 'em!"
"Wlly, my dear sir, you see perhaps won't
enforce those rules ut all-not if they conflict
with anything"
well, they conflict, every one of 'cm."
"Ot course, of course, but what with9"
"Ihcy conflict with mo. you beached out,
white livered New Yorker; every one of 'em
conflicts with me personally! Rules spiked
up around always conflicts with me-"
"l-l-just hold on u minute, sir, and I'll
take those rules right down"
No, you don't, stranger; I'll tend to them
air rules myself I'm goin' ter exercise my
SIN shooter n little in this 'ere ofiice-shall /
pint it at you or at them ru)es!"
"oh, aim at the rules, of course; point it
right at the rules! That's what i put them
up for-for guests to shoot at-shoot all you
want to, don't mind me-" and he put his
hands over his ears and crawled behind the
safe.
Then it sounded as if Il large ironclad had
sailed into the office and was practicing on
the clock with fourtccn-inch gun. After
which the prominent citizen walked away
ana his spurs had n liarsh metallic ring as lie
went out the door, and Mr.. Constance
crawlei from behind the safe and went and
picked what was left of the cardboard out of
tue wall.-Dakota Bell.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
THE CROOKS OF NEW YORK.
Hard Lines for Gotllam's Light Finger,
Gcntry.Capt, Williams, Method,

Hard Lines for Gotham's Light Fingcrco
Gcntry-Capt. Williams Method.
1t is one of the boasts of the New York
detectives that they are personally acquainted
with all tho professional criminals i'll and
near town. The results of this acquaintance
are often peculiar. You are talking with
Detective Prior few feet from the door of
the Fifth Avenue hotel and lie sees n young
dandy halt Il few feet away. Better keep
right on" he says to the dandy; "hurry up
now so, good morning" says the dandy,
I'm only going to set my watch" That is
Kid Miller, chief of the bunco men, and the
detective will not allow him to stop i'll front
OF the hotel. You are pushing Your way into
Macy's shopping store and a little lady like
body is just ahead of you. Suddenly some
one steps un to her and roughly orders her to
"get out at once "Certainly, sir" she says
very neekly, Il was only going to match u
piece of silk" She lies. She is shoplifter
and the man who ordered her out is n
detective.
Perhaps you arc ut the Arion ball with its
5000 dancers and lockers on You walk in
the lobby near the entrance for II breath of
air and meet Capt. Williams in uniform, alert
and handsome as an eagle. He darts from
your side and stands in front of a stout,
elderly, we'll dressed gentleman SO as to OPP
pose his progress. What do you mean by
coming herc:' he says. Tho man answers
boldly: My wife is here and have come to
take her home" "Thatll do, now," says tho
captain; "thrres the door; gct." And, as Ar
teMus Ward used to say, she gets" OF
course The man is n pickpockrt.
II has always been u favoritc method with
Capt Williams to say to rascals of various
sorts "lf You ever put your foot i'll my pro-
clnrt I'll lock You up" This may not he nc
cor'ling to law, but it's according to fact, and
they give that precinct wide berth Pick
pockets like the Allen brothers, who arc we'll
known, havea hard time of it in New York.
No matter how much they may want to see a
play or ball game or attend Il meeting there
Is apt to be some one to stop them ut the cn-
trance with Il "rightabout face, now. You
can't get i'll here" have seen pickpocket
hustled along like bit of down in tho wind
from one block to another, while apparently
an innocent spectator of street parade.
And yet OH the other hand they cluie OBJ
servation very often. The hoStiles aro not
always on bad terms, either You will somc-
times sec Il burglar and detective nod pleas
antly as they pass each other. and even stop
for a moments chat. Perhaps the detective
may have once sent the thief up for term of
years, but the thief is even the more proud of
the acquaintance on that account and likes
to ask tho officer if it was not IL "good Job he
went to Jail for, ~ reply i'll the affirmative
Is like meat and stroms ,iiinh 10 criminal
Julian ka!ph, in Kansas City Times.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
None Wanted.

A practical joker at Albany, who knew of
nn old farmer with 100 bushels of lime on
hand, sent him up to the State house to ask
for n certain senator, who might be induced
to buy the whole lot.
II found him." explained the Old man as lie
returned, and would you believe that he
flew mad i'll Il mint, AMI said that lie would
kick me but fox my gray hairs. Darn it. II
he hasn't got any whitcwashinS to do why
couldn't he say 50 i'll Il civil way."-Wall
Sfrn.t Nnlus
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
The Ballet Girls ocle.

Those who take the pains to observe the
chorus girls i'll the burlesque and comic
operas say that the red cared era is over.
Taking the idea from Belnhardt, the small
ones of the stage painted their ears bright
pink. Their new affectation is called the baby
stare 1t takes the place of the roguish
glance and the shy droop.
The operator of pair of eyes opens them
to their widest, fixes them directly upon a
man in the front row and calmly keeps them
there so long a. circumstances permit.
Neither ogle nor wink is recognized by the
cool orbs thus employed in the intantle act.
They seem aware of nothing beyond the oca.
lar maniiestation.-New York Sun
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Tho narbarous comhination.

The San Francisco Bulletin fears that in
the distant future the name San Francisco
will he worn down to the barbarous comb
nation "Frisco." 1--WE have Inherited from
SPAIN" it says, "sonorous names to which
we should adhere, or substitute their mean
ings i'll our own tongue. The roll of the
counties of California, When called off, is
music in itself, marred alone by the one or
two harshcr and more sbilant tones which
we have introduced into it."-New York
York Tribune.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30

The last pilot chart issued by the navy de-
partlnent shows eleven "derelicts" floating
this summer in the highway of steamship
travel to Europe. Many of them are also in
the path of the greatest coastwise traffic. An
iceberg is not moro dangerous than one of
these half sunken, water logged vessels, and
yet there is no way provided for their re-
moval. Congress has never given to the
navy department the means to remove them,
although it has repeatedly been urged to do
so. Ten per cent of the annual losses at sea
is due to "lercicts" Many vessel strikes
one of these wrecks and goes down hardly
knowing the cause of the disaster.-New
York Sun
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30

The remarkable fact that Senator Cameron
the other day took his baby from the per-
ambulutor and carried it into his house in his
arms so astonished Washington correspond
cnt that it forms the burden of his narrative.
The spectacle Of the great unbenling is
always impressive, but the correspondent was
almost as much astonished as was Mr. Pepys
when he called upon the Duke of York. and,
n, he recorded with awe, found him playing
with his children 'like u common fathcr."-
Boston Transcript.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Knew icarlinr Water.

"Ah-um-but guess you don't know the
rules and provisions of the interstate conf
mercc law he gromled, after drinking from
the cooler in the passenger coach. What is
it, asked the conductor why the rules of
that law prescribe that the coolers shall be
filled with fresh water once week. Better
instruct your brakeman, old boy, for I'm
dead on to you. | live alongside of mill
pond at home, and know yearling water as
well as the next nai."-Wull Street News
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30

"If I'd been little George Washington I'd
have lied about cutting the cherry tree" he
said rs lie laid down his school history.
You would!" exclaimed the mother
"And whyl'
We'll, then it would have been laid to the
hired man."
"And then!n
"And then thered have been the all fired
est fight between him and the old man Wash
lngton anybody ever saw. Little George
was way off on that cherry tree business. ~
Detroit Free Press.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Old Maids.

Henry Ward Beecher said OF old maids that
they We're truly the salt Of the eaX"tl, and
would take the highest seats in heaven. 1t is
the fault of education TINT an "old maid is
held up to rdicule and referred to with op-
probrium: but surely a woman who remains
single because her duty to others demands it
is deserving of the highest praise-and scores
of cases come to my mind while thinking of
these grand souls, where women have re-
maincd unmarried to care for aged parents
or bring up orphaned families: and equally
is she to be commented, who, from n sense Of
duty to herself does not marry because i'll the
opportunities offered she feels that she cannot
realize her ideal of true marriage, and prefers
rather to be called all 'old maid" than to un-
dergo the misery and loss of self respect sure
tores"lt from an uncongenial union.-Mr>. E.
q. Cook, ii. D., in Demorest's Monthly.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
The Original of "col. sellers.u .

The Chicago Mail gravely announces that
"the original of Col. Sellers was the con-
federate general, jeff Thompson, after the
war surveyor of Louisiana, and whose niece
is now the wife of Professor Proctor" The
original of "Col. Sellers" is-or was-Afr.
Eschol Sellers, a resident of southern Illinois,
who sued Mr.. Clemens for libel for using his
real name in the first edition Of "Thc Gilled
Age Mr. Clemens will remember him.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30

A Good Deacon's Earnest Confession.
An Did deacon was asked the other day:
How do you like your pastor' First rate"
he rel lied, Except i'll one thing" Whats
thatt 'lt is this" continued the deacon,
'the Lord never made him to tell jokes, and
yet he insists on telling them. Inever like to
laugh when don't want to laugh, and yet
have TO do it constantly, just to save the pas
tors feelings '-Richmond Religious Herald.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Confederate ,1e,noria, D,v

The Confederate veterans are considering
the proposition to change the date Of their
memorial day from April 2G to May 80, the
northern Decoration day. Governor Fitz-
hugh Lee. of Virginia, recommends the
nge be.ause May 50 is national holiday.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Entertaining H.. po,.

The pope has been enjoying the company
at the Vatican Of the conjurer Bosco, who
was sent for expressly from Vienna to enter
tain his holiness. After witnessing two hours
slelght of hand work with great delight, the
pope compimented the conjurer and sent
him to tue hospital-that is, to entertain the
slck,an honor for which Bosco was not pre-
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
a Dccitled lslontlc.

Bickley-Woud you call Miss Starr a
blonde.
Dingley-Well. yes; but not a very de-
cidcd one.
Bickley-Thats just where you are wrong.
If shes a blonde at all, she's very decided
one, never saw more emphatic decision
than she displayed one night last week when
asked her TO marry me.-Tid Bits.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
A Curiou, Little E;.,,t,

Capt. Juan Mercadel, of San Francisco.
is the master of a curious little steam fishing
boat, which goes outside the Golden (i1t,.
every morning after fish Large nets are
dragged along the bottom, frequently in forty
fathoms, and several hauls seldom fail to
bring up from one to one and half tons Of
good marketable fish.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Deafness of school tbil,lren,

~ see the school teachers are examining
our chiIdrens eyes. They ought to examine
their ears as WE'LL"
'Why.'
"'Causc saw five boys playing marbles
today. They all stood within yard of my
window and within two yards of each other,
and yet had to yell at each other as though
they were mile apart. rt."-Pottsville Chron-
icle.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
A POETS VISION.

Day follows day: years perish: still mine eyes
Are opened on the self same round of space;
Yon fateless forests in their Titan grace,
And the large splendors of those onulent skies
watch unwearicd the miraculor yes
of dawn or sunset; the soft bousiis which lace
Round some coy dryad in lonely place,
Thrilled with low whispering and strange sylvan
sighs;
Weary? the poets mind is fresh as dew,
And oft relilled as fountains of the light.
His clear child's soul finds something sweet and
Even in a weeds heart, the curved leaves Of corn,
The spear like grass, the silvery rime of morn,
cloud rose edged, md tlecting stars at nightl
Paul Hamilton Hayno.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
Henry Wizards Rec. .rv.

Henry Willard appears to have Al. ,ost re-
covered from the financial paralysis WHICH
smote him so severely few years ago, as lie
is now able to pay SEQ, 900 year rent for the
house Lie occupies in New York.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
The Great Forth Brids.

Work on the great Forth bridge is going on
steadily. This bridge when completed will
carry trains lGs feet above high water over
two clear spaces of 1,slO feet of sea, and two
other spaces of $50 feet
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
''Straws Adoat.n

Dandy Young Man fn restauranp-Ah,
waiter, dish of Strawberries and cream.
Waiter turning to fruit counter)-One dish
Of straws afloat.-Chicago Herald.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30

Miss Ethel Dickens, granddaughter of
Charles Dickens, has started type writing
office for the copying Of parts and prompt
books.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30

Keep coffee hy itself, as its odor affects
other articles. F.eel. tea in closed chest or
canister.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
THE HEART.

The heart is harp, harp with two strings;
One dances in joy, one quivers in woe;
And one or the other eternally rings,
AS Fate's fingers over them sweep to and fro;
To-day tits wedding march light rs the air;
Tomorrow dirso walls its notes of despair.
From the German Of p. X. Rosegser, by Laura
Garlaud Carr.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-30
AMONG TIE SHAKERS.
AN ELDER GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF
THEIR WORKING HABITS.

Strict Observance of Correct Laws of
Life-Descriptiom of ~ n"Family's" Daily
Observation-Disclosures and Personal
Clcnnlincss.GOol Old Are
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-06-28

The officers of the new county of
Nalheur, which joins Humboldt Oh the
north, are getting their jail filed. There
have been several shooting serapes since
the county was organized. The latest
reper.ed occurred last week near the
S'ope. Corral, when George simpson end
W ltiam Hopkins exchanged shots with
each other. Simpson was -shot through
the right thigh aud Hopkins was not in.
iured .ttt.tt. .t.